2146 ORDINANCE No. 17 CF 1887 .
Cattle Diseases, Slaughter- Houses, and Markets.
Numbering. 2. The Surveyor General shall cause all market buildings to be numbered .
Register to be 3. A register of all market buildings shall be kept by the Registrar General in
kept.
the form of schedule C to this Ordinance. Every entry in such register shall be primâ
facie evidence of the facts therein appearing.
Manner ofletting 4. The Registrar General shall cause to be conspicuously exhibited on a notice
vacant buildings.
board in each market a list of all market buildings let by the month, and of those
shortly to become vacant, and notice shall, in the case of buildings about to become
vacant, be exhibited at least three weeks before the vacancy and a time fixed for the
reception of tenders.
Hours during 5. Every market shall be open to the public from 4 A. M. till 8 P.M. each day.
which markets
are open.
Signboards. 6. Every occupied stall shall have a sign-board in front showing in full, both in
English and Chinese, the name of the stall -holder.
Obstructing 7. The sign boards and blinds of every market building shall be so arranged as
thoroughfares.
not to obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no lessee of any market building
shall permanently place or store any goods outside such market building, or allow them
to project beyond it.
Conveyance of 8. No person shall make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market for
merchandise.
the conveyance of merchandise not intenlel for sale or exposure for sale in such
market.
Regulating sales. 9. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale any article in any part of the
market other than the part thereof which is appropriated for the sale of such article.
Regulating sales. 10. No sales within any market shall be carried on except in a market building.
Hawking 11. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any market.
prohibited .
Cleansing of 12. Every holder of a market building shall cause his building to be properly
stalls.
cleansed immediately before the reception, deposit or exposure for sale therein or
thereon and immediately after the removal therefrom of any marketable commodities
or articles .
Butchers' stalls. 13. Every butcher and dealer in flesh meat shall thoroughly wash and cleanse his
stall, block, stall-board and any fittings or utensils belonging thereto at least once a
day.
Sale of flesh 14. No flesh meat other than that which has been slaughtered in the slaughter
meat.
houses of the Colony shall be exposed for sale in any market till it has been inspected.
by an inspector of markets and marked by him as being fit for human food.
Sale ofimported 15. Every butcher and dealer in flesh meat who exposes for sale flesh meat which
flesh meat.
has not been slaughtered in the slaughter-houses of the Colony, shall put up a notice
on the front of his stall in English and Chinese stating the place from whence such
flesh meat was imported , and the letters and characters of such notice shall be at least
one and a half inches long.